NOTE TO SHERM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00499R000100100003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 18, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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The questions you ask concerning quality degradation
are extremely difficult to answer. From an estimated
resolution viewpoint, the loss would be something like this;
Ty e of Materials
Loss
Original Negative
Duplicate Positive
Duplicate Negative
Paper Print_(briefing board)
35mm Negative
15%
Paper Print
10%
Half-tone
25%
,>50% loss
It must be remembered, however, that what one actually saw
in the French paper was probably academic from a purely
technical viewpo.i.nt. The untrained eye most likely couldn't
have gotten an ore significance out of what he saw if he
would have been looking at the duplicate positive that was
used by the PI.
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send you co:-.ies of the photos of the
Cuban missile crisis which were publish
in the 25 October -962 r iGARU .
These copies were made on microfilm
reader-.rinter from a positive microfil
belonging to the Library of Congress
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